Nvidia, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced the launch of a new AI chip called Blackwell this year, and it is set to set new standards. This is reported by CNBC.
The chip, which Nvidia calls a “platform,” is intended to offer users significantly higher performance and help them efficiently edit complex AI models. Along with the new hardware, Nvidia also wants to introduce revised software that will make Nvidia products easier to use. Nvidia wants to further expand its position as a preferred supplier to AI companies, CNBC reports.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is quoted in the CNBC report as saying, “Hopper (the previous model, editor's note) is fantastic, but we need bigger GPUs.” The first Blackwell chip is called GB200 and is scheduled to hit the market. market this year.
Nvidia supplies countless leading global corporations. Also Microsoft and goal They have already spent billions of dollars on Nvidia chips, as CNBC highlights.
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Nvidia's development accelerated rapidly with the start of the AI boom, triggered by OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022. Since then, chip sales have tripled and the share price has even increased by around 500 percent. hundred.
According to the report, Nvidia will try to act less as a pure chip supplier and more as a platform supplier, similar to Microsoft or Apple. The advantage of this approach: other companies can develop their software based on platforms.
Nvidia has not yet revealed the cost of the new GB200 or the systems it will be used on. Analysts estimate the Hopper-based H100 costs between $25,000 and $40,000 per chip. Complete systems could cost up to $200,000.
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